Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884?1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter .

Hopkins was born in Bury St. Edmunds , Suffolk in 1884. ^[1]

Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde . He also wrote books on the English countryside . ^[2]

Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts . He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s. ^[3]

His son was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (1913?2014), known as Thurston, well-known Picture Post photojournalist.

Publications [ edit ]

• Oscar Wilde: A Study of the Man and His Work (1913)
• War and the Weird (1916)
• Kipling's Sussex (1921)
• Rudyard Kipling, a Character Study: Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks (1921)
• H. G. Wells: Personality, Character, Topography (1922)
• Thomas Hardy's Dorset (1922)
• Rudyard Kipling's World (1925)
• The Kipling Country (1925)
• The Literary Landmarks of Devon & Cornwall (1926)
• Old English Mills and Inns (1927)
• This London: Its Taverns, Haunts and Memories (1927)
• London Pilgrimages (1928)
• The Lure of London (1929)
• In Search of English Windmills (1931)
• Old Windmills of England (1931)
• The Man Who Was Sussex (1933)
• Life and death at the Old Bailey (1935)
• Moated Houses of England (1935)
• Adventures with Phantoms (1946)
• The Heart of London (1951)
• Ghosts Over England (1953)
• The World's Strangest Ghost Stories (1955?)
• Cavalcade of Ghosts (1956)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Media related to Robert Thurston Hopkins at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by Robert Thurston Hopkins at Project Gutenberg
• R. Thurston Hopkins at Library of Congress , with 39 library catalogue records

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